Library Science

Library science (often termed library studies or library and information science) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.

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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
Role Play
The Last Sane Woman
The Library: A Fragile History
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
The Wickedest
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization
We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World
Foundations of Library and Information Science
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century : An Introduction
Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction
Library: An Unquiet History
Reference and Information Services: An Introduction (Library & Information Science Text)
Library and Information Center Management
Developing Library and Information Center Collections
Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management
The Library Book
Librarian's Guide to Online Searching
From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
Introduction to Cataloging and Classification

What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated.
Michael Gorman, Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century

Since at least the Sixth Century all librarians have received extensive combat training and are lethal with even the common toothpick.
James Turner, Rex Libris, Volume I: I, Librarian

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